Joseph M. DeSimone, W.R. Kenan Jr. distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at UNC and N.C. State University, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who has served as director of UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center since 2001, has been named chairman of the department of chemistry. read more
John Edwards ’77 (JD), North Carolina’s former U.S. senator and the Democratic Party’s 2004 vice presidential candidate, will lead a new center being launched by Carolina to seek solutions to poverty. The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity… read more
UNC’s Interfraternity Council will host a dinner on Sunday, Feb. 13, to benefit people who suffered losses in the December tsunamis. read more
In-state students may not face higher tuition next year following action by the UNC System Board of Governors on Feb. 11 that would freeze in-state tuition for 2005-06. read more
On May 13, two days before Harvard divinity Professor Peter J. Gomes addresses graduates at Commencement, television humorist Mo Rocca will deliver what is likely to be a different sort of speech in the University’s first Senior Class Address. read more
Chancellor James Moeser has told members of Cornelia Phillips Spencer’s family that he wants a campus committee to study the need for a new UNC award to honor women – an award that he says could be named to “honor the outstanding service given to… read more
New deans have been named to head UNC’s schools of public health and dentistry – one selected from Carolina’s faculty and the other recruited from his alma mater. read more
Campus visitors can expect to take advantage of a new place to park in March, when a three-story parking deck is expected to open in the new Ramshead Center now under construction. read more
Eastern North Carolina native Timothy B. Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name is the University’s choice for incoming undergraduates to read and discuss in the 2005 Summer Reading Program. read more